Health guidelines are as much fiction as fact, according to Dr Michael Mosley, the man who is debunking the myths

Michael Mosley is a doctor. And like pretty much every doctor you have known,
he likes a drink. Or three. He cheerfully repeats the old joke that the
definition of a drinking problem is someone who consumes more than his GP.
Don’t try to impress your consultant by sticking to the
government-recommended guidelines for alcohol — he probably necks that after
a hard day looking after you.

And so when you listen to an exchange between Dr Mosley and a University of
Oxford health expert on the upper limit of safe alcohol consumption, it is
to hear a man in shock.